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So let's see, at $1M/BTC, three halvings, 6 blocks per hour, that's 9.3BTC/hr in rewards, call it at least $10M/hr because transaction fees. Electricity at 5 ce

So let's see, at $1M/BTC, three halvings, 6 blocks per hour, that's 9.3BTC/hr in rewards, call it at least $10M/hr because transaction fees. Electricity at 5 cents/kWh means that buys 200GW, but say miner cost is half hardware. So we'd be consuming about 100GW of energy to send seven transactions per second.

mlcrypto 6y ago
It will be securing $20T in terms of market cap. Energy consumption metrics aren't useful without considering the source of energy. BTC gives us the potential to harness natural sources of untapped energy far from cities, convert it into money, and instantly transport it anywhere. The transaction limit is a non issue for me because final settlement is still faster than traditional methods.